Why can't 400,000 people dig the tomb of Empress Wu Zetian? What is in the tomb?

Speaking of Wu Zetian, our first impression is of the Chinese empress, and Wu Zetian’s wordless monument. In Chinese history, many emperors would build their own mausoleums after they ascended the throne, which cost a lot of money and gold and silver. After their death, there were many burial objects inside. In this way, many emperors' tombs have been stolen, but Wu Zetian's tomb has been hacked by swords from the cold weapon era, and bombarded by machine guns and cannons from the hot weapon era. So far, many people want to visit but can't get in? So what about Wu Zetian's mausoleum? What on earth is inside the mausoleum that makes it so copper-clad and iron-clad that no one can enter?

Her mausoleum has been hacked by swords from the Cold Weapon Age, and bombarded by machine guns and cannons from the Hot Weapon Age for more than 1,200 years. , there were 17 named Qianling robbers, the largest of which had as many as 400,000 people, and almost half of Liangshan where Qianling was located was taken away. However, to this day, Qianling still does not abandon or give up, and like Xu Sanduo, he diligently protects the remains of his master Wu Zetian and her husband Li Zhi. We can't help but ask, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's Maoling Mausoleum was evacuated, Emperor Taizong's Zhaoling Mausoleum was raided, and Emperor Kangxi couldn't even collect his bones. Why could Wu Zetian's Qianling Mausoleum alone be spared?

This matter must start with the construction of Qianling Mausoleum. Qianling Mausoleum is located on Liangshan Mountain, 6 kilometers north of Qian County, Shaanxi Province, and 76 kilometers away from the ancient city of Xi'an. It was built in 684 AD. It took 23 years for the project to be basically completed. Liangshan is a naturally formed limestone peak with three towering peaks. The north peak is the highest, with an altitude of 1047.3 meters. The second south peak is lower, facing east and west. At that time, the people called it "Nipple Mountain". Looking west from the east side of Qianling Mausoleum, Liangshan Mountain looks like a female body lying on its back on the earth, with the north peak as the head and the two southern peaks as the chest. People often say that it is a wonderful symbol of Empress Wu Zetian.

After Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty died of illness, Wu Zetian ordered Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng, the great warlocks who were famous in both the government and the public at that time, to select a geomantic treasure land for the emperor. The two traveled around Kyushu respectively, and when they came back, they told each other that they had chosen Liangshan Mountain in Hao? County, now Qian County. Wu Zetian sent envoys to investigate. When they arrived at the top of Liangshan Mountain, Yuan Tiangang said that he had buried a copper coin here, and Li Chunfeng said that he had ordered an iron nail here. When the soil was dug up, Li's iron nails were inserted right into the copper square holes where Yuan had buried them. Everyone present clapped their hands in surprise. Therefore, Wu Zetian chose the site of the mausoleum in Liangshan, which is now Qianling Mausoleum. In terms of Feng Shui alone, Qianling Mausoleum surpasses all the imperial mausoleums of the Tang Dynasty.

Empress Wu Zetian chose Liangshan as the "ten thousand year life domain" for her husband Tang Gaozong and herself a hundred years later. When the Qianling Mausoleum was built, it was at the height of the Tang Dynasty and the country was full of power. The mausoleum was large in scale and the architecture was majestic and magnificent. It can be called "the crown of all imperial mausoleums in the past." In the early Tang Dynasty, Taizong Li Shimin learned from the historical lesson that no country has ever been destroyed and no tomb has been dug. Starting from the Zhaoling Mausoleum of him and Queen Changsun, he created the burial system of "making the mountain a mausoleum", which was inspired by the famous art at that time. The masters Yan Lide and Yan Liben brothers presided over the design. The mausoleum is a combination of buildings and sculptures, and is arranged on the mountains with the appearance of "dragons circling and phoenixes".

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, by chance, several farmers discovered the tomb passage of Qianling Mausoleum. In 1960, Shaanxi Province established the Qianling Mausoleum Excavation Committee and began to excavate the underground palace tomb passages of Qianling Mausoleum on April 3. Excavations show that the tomb passage of the Qianling Mausoleum is located halfway up the mountain southeast of the main peak of Liangshan Mountain and consists of a trench and a stone cave. Looking at the truth, the trench is 17 meters deep and is completely filled with stone strips 1.25 meters long and 0.4 to 0.6 meters wide. The tomb passage is slope-shaped, with a total length of 63.1 meters, wide from the south and narrow from the north, with an average width of 3.9 meters. The stone strips are stacked and buckled along the slope from south to north, with a total of 39 floors, 410 pieces of which are exposed on the plane, and about 8,000 stone strips are used on the 39th floor. The stone strips are fastened with dovetail-shaped thin-waisted iron bolt plates, and holes are drilled between the upper and lower parts with iron rods to penetrate them. The molten tin and iron juice is poured into the stone strips to melt them into one body. The excavation situation is consistent with the record in the "Old Tang Book? Biography of Yan Shansi" that "the gate of Qianling Xuanque is blocked with stones, and the gaps in the stones are fixed with cast iron." In addition, archaeologists found no signs of robbery or disturbance around the mausoleum, proving that Qianling is the only tomb of a Tang Dynasty emperor that has not been robbed.